[flashrom] flashrom -V

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 12:53:13 -0700
steve at twovoyagers.com wrote:

> > On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 19:04:54 -0700
> > steve at twovoyagers.com wrote:
> >
> >> Board name: GeForce 6100PM - M2 V3.0
> >>
> >>   There was an oddity.  After running
> >>
> >> $ sudo flashrom -V -p internal > flashrom-V.txt ,
> >>
> >> I got this message
> >> (which doesn't appear in the capture):
> >> Mapping NVIDIA MCP6x SPI at 0xfec80000, unaligned size 0x544.
> >
> > Hello Steve,
> >
> > that's ok. It was printed to the standard error output and you only
> > redirected standard output. You can create log files with the -o
> > parameter BTW.
> 
> >>   Dunno what that means, but this specific board wasn't included in the
> >> list of boards known to work, but all appeared to go as intended.
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > You did not mention what exactly "appeared to go as intended". Your log
> > only shows that flashrom detects the flash chip correctly, but we are
> > more interested in successful writes (which the output message does not
> > point out very clearly). Did you test writing?
> 
>   Sorry I wasn't clear.  flashrom did successfully overwrite the OEM
> AMI BIOS dated 2010/03/24 with the (newest) one dated 2010/05/26.

OK great, thanks! I have added your board to our list of supported
hardware and will commit that later together with other small changes.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner